London’s Most Mysterious Museum Exhibits: Part 1
A battery-operated opossum? A yeti’s foot?
Grant Museum
London Venues Shortlisted For Museums + Heritage Awards
Two London museums shortlisted for public vote.
Exhibition Review: The Micrarium @ Grant Museum
The world of tiny creatures brought to life in a shrine full of slides.
Call My Bluffalo @ Grant Museum
Know your slippery dick from your booby?
LONCats: The Top 10 Cats Of London
Have we got mews for you…
Pickled Moles And iPads: Grant Museum Set To Reopen
The wonders of zoology get their own hashtags.
Last Minute Listing: The Creature From The Black Lagoon @ UCL
A quarter of a century before a Robert-Shaw-devouring shark had the final word in aquatic menace, there was the Creature From the Black Lagoon. Actually, this dude is even more menacing. He has legs, and can leave his watery environment in search of lady flesh. …
Grant Museum To Close Until January
The wonderful, skeletal, taxidermical marvel that is the Grant Museum of Zoology is to shut up shop on 1 July for at least half a year. The cramped closet of anatomy is shifting from its current home on Gower Street to more roomy quarters. From …
Last Minute Listing: Humans Riding on the Backs of Dinosaurs
The Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky must rank as one of the most bizarre on Earth (or any other planet in this 14 billion year old universe). The ‘educational’ institution maintains that the world is only a few thousand years old and that humans and …
Grant Museum Screens The Wolfman
No series about the Grant Museum – our Museum of the Month – would be complete without mentioning the exceptional range of free events hosted by the UCL venue. Tonight sees a corker – a screening of the 1941 horror classic ‘The Wolfman‘. The film …
From The Grant Museum: The Mystery Of The Quagga’s Leg
In the third of three posts, we focus on individual exhibits from the weird and wonderful collection of our Museum of the Month – the Grant Museum. Here we see the skeleton of a female quagga (Equus quagga quagga). This extinct form of zebra lived …
